Programming Wpf

by Sells, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780596510374
• ISBN10: 0596510373
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of the new rich user interface capabilities of the .NET 3.0 Framework, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. Fully updated for the release of .NET 3.0, this new edition will get you up to speed quickly. The new edition includes new chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with a new appendix that covers Microsoft's new Silverlight platform for delivering richer UI through standard web browsers.

Author Biography

Chris Sells is a Program Manager for the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. He's written several books, including the first edition of "Programming WPF", "Windows Forms 2.0 Programming" and "ATL Internals" (both Addison-Wesley). In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris, and his various projects, is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com

Ian Griffiths is an independent WPF consultant, developer, speaker and Pluralsight instructor and a widely recognized expert on the subject. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question. Ian maintains a popular blog at http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ and is co-author of "Windows Forms in a Nutshell" and of "Mastering Visual Studio .NET".

Table of Contents

Hello, WPF	p. 1
Applications and settings	p. 36
Layout	p. 61
Input	p. 109
Controls	p. 139
Simple data binding	p. 168
Binding to list data	p. 200
Styles	p. 257
Control templates	p. 284
Windows and dialogs	p. 314
Navigation	p. 341
Resources	p. 365
Graphics	p. 395
Text and flow documents	p. 468
Printing and XPS	p. 522
Animation and media	p. 563
3D graphics	p. 612
Custom controls	p. 651
XAML	p. 683
Interoperability	p. 715
Asynchronous and multithreaded WPF programming	p. 738
WPF base types	p. 750
Silverlight	p. 766
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